Example sentences of "[prep] [num] occasion [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , on three occasions I was witness to CAMRA members complaining loudly that they should not have to queue as long as non-members to get in , or that only CAMRA members should be allowed to attend . |
| 2 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 3 | On three occasions he was referred by the court for a psychiatric report on account of his oddness , lack of sociability , occasional outbursts of violence and a suspicion that he was taking illegal drugs . |
| 4 | This happens on eight occasions in all ; on three occasions he is thinking about his father and on five occasions he is thinking about his mother . |
| 5 | He said how on three occasions he won but on three occasions he lost . |
| 6 | He said how on three occasions he won but on three occasions he lost . |
| 7 | This happens on eight occasions in all ; on three occasions he is thinking about his father and on five occasions he is thinking about his mother . |
| 8 | On one occasion they were so preoccupied with their discussion , driving from Montreal to Toronto , that they failed to notice how low in petrol they had become . |
| 9 | The trio of actors became close off set , though with Fonda a committed monogamist , Hopper and Nicholson often went off into the night ; on one occasion they shared a memorable experience with LSD , so memorable , in fact , that both men have chosen , separately , to recall it in detail , as best they could . |
| 10 | On one occasion they called at the school-house for tea , leaving the dog outside in the car . |
| 11 | On one occasion they got so swollen headed that they were charging the children a penny each to try on their hats . |
| 12 | On one occasion they unearthed a blue taffeta ball dress with small bouquets of pink and cream brocade roses . |
| 13 | On one occasion they locked him in a bedroom and he threw a wooden brick through the window and tore down the curtains . |
| 14 | On one occasion they locked him in a bedroom and he threw a wooden brick through a window and tore down the curtains . |
| 15 | On one occasion they were comparing engagements in their respective diaries when two photographs of Camilla fell out from the pages of Charles 's diary . |
| 16 | On one occasion we picked out an exciting scrambling route to the top , taking each problem direct as it arose . |
| 17 | It 's designed to sleep two or three but on one occasion we had four adults sleeping inside . |
| 18 | On one occasion we bought two from a toothless ancient , whose family claimed he was a hundred and twenty years old and boasted that he had killed a hundred and forty men in his day . |
| 19 | On one occasion we were lying alongside a pipe-laying barge in a remote anchorage with a six feet swell grinding Venturous against the chain secured tyre fenders when the superintendent of the large leaned over and shouted down to me . |
| 20 | There is also reference to reprimands and complaints addressed by him to his subordinates ; on one occasion we are told that the generals on an unsuccessful campaign justified their failure by explaining that although his piety was noted , he was not feared and this meant that his agents commanded no respect . |
| 21 | On one occasion it jammed and made a loud buzzing noise which I hoped I managed to conceal with a loud burst of coughing . |
| 22 | Obviously , if Jane says I 'm skipping and Mary says I 'm skipping we observe that on one occasion it is Jane who announces that she is skipping and on another it is Mary . |
| 23 | On one occasion it was a group called the Fine Young Cannibals who made the journey , to discuss Virgin 's offer for the rights to their song-publishing . |
| 24 | On one occasion I went to a hospital in south London to what the police reckoned would be a very rough demonstration . |
| 25 | We discussed my pacifism , and on one occasion I denied my convictions , just to be on his side . |
| 26 | On one occasion I remember that she promoted me very briefly for the space of an entire morning . |
| 27 | I remember on one occasion I dashed out of the television studios to the bookshop in Norwich without a trace of make-up on and these kids fell off their bikes , saying ‘ Ugh , in real life you do n't look at all like you do on TV . ’ ’ |
| 28 | On one occasion I learned the Morse code and , with a hand-made press-switch attached to a light bulb , flashed messages to Willard Hamilton holding a similar device , perched on the roof of his house on Oxford Street . |
| 29 | On one occasion I persuaded Vaughan Grayson Mann to show me around her house so that I could write a review of the many oil paintings which had brought her national fame as an artist . |
| 30 | On one occasion I lay down for a rest , dozed off for 15 minutes , and awoke to find half a dozen sitting on branches within a few metres of my recumbent form . |